Species Ledella curtior (Cotton, 1930)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Comitileda curtior Cotton, B.C. 1930. Pelecypoda of the Flindersian Region, southern Australia, No. 1. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 4(2): 223-240 [226].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).

 

Generic Combinations

• Nuculana (Ledella) curtior (Cotton, 1930). —
  Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [38, fig. 31]

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

To 165 m (see Lamprell & Healy 1998)

 

General References

Huber, M. 2010. Compendium of Bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. [533]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [38, fig. 31]

 

History of changes

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		29-Mar-2010	MODIFIED